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0 JOSEPH WINDOW SHADE. No. 550,559.

' Patented Nov. 26, 1895. 2,94 .1.

ANDREW BSRAHAM. PHUTOUVNUWAISMINGTYONJS,

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0; JOSEPH.

WINDOW SHADE.

' No. 550,559. Pa-tentd Nov. 25, 1895.

ANDREW BJIR'ANAM.PMOTO-UTNQWASMINGTOEQC,

UNITE STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CARL JOSEPH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WIN DOW-SHAD E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,559, dated November 26, 1895.

Application fil ed March 26, 1895. $erial No. 543,194. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL JOSEPH, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVindow-Shades, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of improvements in a shadefixed on a roll for rolling up and down, whereby it may also be opened in the manner of slats and may also be adjusted for an awning, as hereinafter described, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation of a window having a shade constructed and arranged, according to my improvements, with the strips partly opened, the View being from the outside. Fig. 2 is a top view, with a part in horizontal section, on line 00a; of Fig. 1, also with the strips partly opened. Fig. 3 is a side elevation as seen with the left-hand side of the windowframe removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation on line y y of Fig 1. Fig. 5 represents a side view of the bracket for supporting the right-hand end of the roller as seen looking at said end in the lengthwise direction of the roller. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of said bracket: and part of the roller as seen looking from inside of thewindow. Fig. 7 is a plan view of said bracket; and Fig. 8 is a section of part .of the window-frame on line a a, Fig. 1.

The textile fabric of the curtain is divided into a series of narrow vertical strips a, which are stretched between top and bottom bars I) and c, pivoted centrally to the roller d and the bar e, respectively. (See dotted pivots d, Fig. 2, and pivots d Fig. 1.) The bars I) each have a short arm f connected to a bar g, and the bars 0 each have a like arm h connected to a bar 1' for shifting the strips 04 to open and close them in the manner of the slats of Venetian blinds.

The bar I) of the strip a, at the right-hand side in Figs. 1 and 2, has an arm j, connected with the yoke 70, turning on the pivot Z, supported in the bracket-arm m, and the bar 0 of said right-hand strip ahas an arm 01, connected with a rod 0, pendent from the lower part of yoke k, and at its lower end supported at one extremity of an arm 19, whose other extremity is pivoted at q to a bar .9, which normally rests on the window-sill t in the plane of the shade and extends from side to side of the window, its ends being respectively connected to links a v at the sides of the window, which fold up, as in Figs. 1 and 3, when said bar 3 is in the normal position, and extend, as in Fig. 4, when the shade is to be used as an awning. A keeper 12 looks the links in the straight line.

An internally-toothed segment w of a gearwheel is attached to the upper member y of the yoke It, so as to turn on the pivot Z, and a pinion z is geared with the segment for turning it, said pinion having a couple of pulleys aattached to it, and having pull chains or cords b, pendent from them over guide-pulleys c, for turning them forward and backward to turn the strips a on their pivots d for opening and closing them, said pinion and segment taking effect on the strips through the instrumentality of the yoke k, the rod 0, pendent from it, the bars 9 '0', connected to said rod, and the short arms f h, connecting the said bars, and the pivoted bars I) c, to which the shade-strips are connected.

On the left-hand side of the window, Fig. 1, is another rod 0, similar to rod 0, but pendent from a bracket 6', attached to the side of thewindow-frame and at the lower end supported directly in the bar 8. This rod 0 and the rod 0 serve for guides for the bar a, to which the shade-strips are pivoted at the lower end, as before stated, in addition to the use of the rod 0 for opening and closing said strips, said bar e being strung on the rod 0 by the perforated arm n, through which said rod is inserted, and on rod 0" by the perforated terminal plate f, through whichrod 0 is inserted. These rods 0 and o are jointed at g to allow them to articulate for setting the shade for use as an awning, as seen in Fig. 4. The upper member of rod 0 is connected by a thin longitudinal web h and a rivet 11 with astud j, attached to the window-frame at the joint g for a stay for control of the rod when setting the shade for an awning. The perforated terminal f of the bare is suitably notched to pass this connecting-web when sliding up and down. A catch of any approved kind, as 70', may be employed on the window-sill t to secure the bar .5 in the normal position.

The bracket-arm m, carrying the pivot l, on which the segmental wheel w turns, is supported by the bracket-plate m, and said plate m has a base p, by which itis attached to the side of the window-frame. Arm m supports another arm g, which carries a stud-pivot s, on which the pulleys a of the pull-cords and the pinion .2 are mounted for working the segmental wheel w. A guide-pulley u is employed with one of the pull-cords b for direeting it between its pulleys a and b.

A pulley '0 is applied to the roller datone end with a cord 10 to turn the roller forrollin g the shade up, when desired, and for graduating the action when the shade is to be lowered. The roller (Z is preferably of about half-round form and made of suitably-bent sheet metal with (3-1O'SS-l)L1'S a for receiving the pivots cl of the bars 1'), to which theupper ends of the shade-strips are attached but it may be constructed in any approved way.

The roller (1 has a large disk-pivot b fitted in the bracket-plate m and having a radial slot If, to which a corresponding slot '0 of the bracket-plate m admits the arm j when the yoke 75 'swin gs into normal position. The said arm then lodges in the axis of the roller and is thereby permitted to turn with the roller for raising and lowering the shade, with which the bar g, arms f, and the bars I), to whichthe upper ends of the strips are connected, also turn, being connected to said roller.

, 1. The combination of the shade roller, the shade consisting of a series of vertical strips and pivotedat the upper end. to the roller, 1 the bar pivoted to and pendent from the lower ends of the shade strips, the swinging-yoke, coupled with the shade strips at the upper end for opening and closing them, by a rod normally lying in the axis of the roller to avoid interference with its rotation, and the rod pendent from said yoke and'coupled with the shade strips at the lower end for opening 1 and closing them, and the pull cords geared 1 with the yoke for operating it and the shade "strips substantially as described.

The combination of the shade roller, the j shade consisting of a series of vertical strips and pivoted at the upper end to the roller, 1

the bar pivoted toa'nd pendent from the lower ends of the shade strips, the yoke and the rod pendent from it coupled with the shade strips for opening and closing them, said pendent rod also forming a guide for the lower end of one side of the shade and having the articulating joint, the guide rod for the lower end of the other side of the shade and also having an articulating joint, the bar having the guide rods connected at their lower ends and adapted for setting the shade as an awning, the extension links connecting said awning bar with the window frame, and the pull cords geared with the yoke for operating it and the shade strips substantially as described.

3. The combination of the shade roller, the shade consisting of a series of vertical strips pivoted at the upper end to the roller, the bar pivoted to and pendent from the lower ends of the shade'stri'ps, the yoke and the rod 'pe11dent from it coupled with the shade strips for opening and closing them, the pull 'co'rds geared with the yoke for operating it and the shade strips, the arm connecting the shade strip bars with the yoke arranged to lodge in the axis of the shade roller, and the roller pivot and its supporting bearing adapted to admit said arm to said axis substantiallyas described. p

4. The combination of the shade roller, the shade consisting of a series of vertical strips, the pivot bars attached to the ends of the i strip, and pivoted in the shade roller and the bar pendent from the strips, the swinging yoke, the guide rods for said pendent bar 0110 of which swings wi ththe yoke, the short arms and bars connecting the strips at top and bottom, the upper end bar of one of the strips connected with the yoke, the lower end bar of said strip connected with the pendent rod, the pivoted bar connected with the lower end of theipendent rod, and the toothed segmentand pull cords geared withtheyoke foropera'tin g it substantially as described.

Signed at New York city, in the county and State of New York, this 15th day of Fem-w ary, A. D. 1895.

CARL JOSEPH.

Witnesses:

W. J. llIORGAN, S. H. MoReAN. 

